September 16, 2013

How to Tailgate in Style

With Fall sporting events coming quickly down the pike, it's time to start thinking seriously about your tailgating options. Bon Appetit has put together an extremely thorough tailgating article that runs down your options, from which tailgating association to join (they have those?), to which magazines to subscribe to, to how you can spend that extra $150,000 you have lying around (pictured).

Of course, you don't have to go quite as luxury as all that, but there are some options for making your life a bit easier as you root, root, root for the home team - we'll add more if we think of anything we're missing.

Tailgate Table for a 2-Inch Trailer Hitch: This four-foot long table quickly and easily attaches and detaches from your 2" trailer hitch, giving you all kinds of room for life's essentials - burgers, dogs, beer, and maybe even some cocktails.

Portable Bar: If you can't figure out why you might need a portable cocktail creation tools whilst you're tailgating, you probably shouldn't be tailgating. Just make sure it's out of sight when security strolls by - and you mix cocktails responsibly.

Portable Beer Pong: Apparently, the trend is to play Beirut with cups of water on the table these days, out of squeamishness of drinking beer full of floaties from the ground. Kids these days, amirite?

Beer Can Covers: The jury is still out on how well these camouflage a beer can, and you're SOL if you're drinking from bottles (hint: you shouldn't be), but in our experience most of the security in the parking lots is fine as long as you don't wave your beer cans in their faces.